Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-05-28

either country to all the advantages Of regis
try in the other. 8. The formation of joint
commission to secure the efficient lighting OF
the great inland waters common to both
countries. 10. The formation Of joint
commission to promote the protection and
common to both countries" The proposed
Caughuawaga Canal was intended to connect
the st. Lawrence river at Montreal with the
northern end of Lake Champlain. The
whitehall Canal was intended to connect the
Hudson river at Troy with Lake Champlain
at WHITEHALL
FEATURES OF THE TREATY.
It will be observed by reference to the list
OF the articles covered by this treaty that 1T
is free from one of the objections suggested
with reference to the reciprocity treaty of
1854, in that it admits into the Canadian
markets the products of our factories and
shops, which the treaty of 1854 did not.
The list covered by the treaty is as follows:
Agricultural implements, of all kinds
axles, of all kinds; boots and shoes, of
leather; boot and shoemaking machines;
buffalo robes, dressed and trimmed; cotton
grain bags; cotton denims; cotton jeans,
unbleached; cotton drillings, unbleached;
cotton plaids; cotton ticking;- cottonades,
unbleached; cabinet ware or furniture, or
parts thereof; carriages, carts, wagons, and
other wheeled vehicles or sleighs, or parts
thereof; fire engines, or parts thereof; felt
covering for boilers gutta percha betting
and tubing; iron-bar, hoop, pig, puddled,
rod, sheet or scrap; iron nails, spikes, bolts,
tacks, braids, or springs. iron castings; India
railways or parts thereof; lead, sheet or pig;
leather, sole or upper; leather, harness or
saddlery; mill or factory or steamboat fixed
engines, and machines or parts thereof; man
ufactures of marble, stone, slate, or GRANTEE
manufactures of wood solely, or of wood
n 1n1 IL l<ol raI rrysfh fol
materials; mangles, washing machines,
wringing machines, drying machines, or
parts thereof; printing paper for newspapers;
paper-making machines or parts thereof;
printing type, presses and folders, paper cut
tiers, ruling machines, page numbering ma
apparatus, or parts thereof; refrigerators, or
parts thereof; railroad cars, carriages, and
trucks, or parts thereof; satinets of wool and
cotton; steam engines, or parts thereof;
steel, wrought or cast, and steel plates and
rails; tin tubes and piping; tweeds, of wool
solely water wheel machines and apparatus,
or parts thereof.
1t will be observed that the treaty embraced
articles of common daily use among the
people and such as affect the prosecution of
leading industries. They also relate specially
to the protection of branches of industry en-
gagged in by the citizens of both countries,
and to articles in which considerable traffic
between the two may be reasonably ex-
pected.
Commenting upon the wisdom of this
treaty, one of the leading statesmen of Can
ada, the Hon. George Brown, who, as stated,
wa: one of the Commissioners on the part of
Great Britain, made use of the following Ian
guage which will adopt, as it presents the
case with clearness and candor, and, as think,
impartially, and suggests the advantages
which are to inure in case of q reciprocal ar
rangement, which not only includes all that
was covered by the treaty of 1856, and proposed
in the negotiations Of 1874, but removes
along the line which separates the two ma
tons.
A CANADIANS VIEW OF THE SUBJECT.
- Speaking Of the ten propositions, Mr..
Brown said: 1.-THE first, second and seventh
of them go naturally together, and they need
no comment. They. embrace simply the
conditions of the old treaty of 1854, which
operated so favorably for us, and so much
more favorably for the United States. l
will leave it for the present and return to it
again. The fourth proposition-for the en-
eminently for the advantage of the United
States, and involves very large expenditure
on our part. 1t is impossible to estimate the
enormous annual gains that must result to
the farmers of the Western States, when
vessels Of 1000 and l 200 tons shall be able to
to Liverpool-free from transhipment ex-
penses, brokers' commissions, way harbor
Dues and ocean port charges, and return
direct to the prairies with hardy emigrants
and cargoes of European merchandise.
Canada, no donbt, would have her
could not be compared for moment with
that of the great Northwestern and some of
the Middle States. The fifth proposition for
the construction of the Caughnawaga canal
would be also an immense boon to the
United States. 1t would open up to the
dense manufacturing population of New
communication of their own with the
great West; it would enable them to load
ships of 1000 tons at their Lake Champlain
ports with merchandise for the prairie
States, and bring them back freighted with
farm produce; and when the Whitehall
canal should be enlarged to Troy, and the
pleted to deep water, where in the wide
world could be found so grand system of
internal water navigations that, stretching
as it then would, in one continuous ship
channel from New York on the Atlantic to
the west end of Lake Superior, and possibly
ere long to the eastern base of the Rocky
Mountains?
Canada, too, would have her share of profit
in all this. Her great lumber interests on
the Ottawa and its branches would find full
advantage from it, and the enterpriSing
farmers of the midland and Eastern coun-
ties of Ontario would have the New England
market, with its three and half millions of
manufacturing population, open to their
traffic. The sixth proposition is the conces-
sion to each other of the inland coasting
trade and nothing could be done more sem
sible or more profitable to both parties. Our
season of navigation on the lakes is short
the pressure for vessels in particular trades at
special times is very great on both sides of
the lakes, and freights advance to unrea-
sonable rates. Cheap transportation is
ern industrial world, and what can be
conceived more absurd than to see, as is often
seen, large quantities of produce lying un-
bottoms cannot take freight from one port to
another in the same country? What the
United States could fear from the COMPETE
ton of our limited marine with the 5, $40 ves-
sells of all kinds and an aggregate tonnage of
1888, 600 tons, it is difficult to imagine. The
eighth proposition-for the reciprocal admis-
sion of vessels built in either country to reg
istry in the others generally regarded as
highly advantageous to this country and no
doubt such is the fact. But confess can
not see why it ought not to be regarded as in
finitely more advantageous to the United
States. During the civil war the mer-
chant vessels of the republic were sold
in large numbers to foreign owners
and acquired foreign registers, and
Notwithstanding that shipbuilding had
almost disappeared from the United States in
consequence of an extreme protectionist
policy, the law absolutely forbade their being
brought back or vessels Of foreign build being